thei maken gret servyse for lordes.  Alle here lust and alle here ymaginacioun, is for to putten alle londes undre hire subieccioun.  And thei seyn, that thei knowen wel be hire prophecyes, that thei schulle ben overcomen by archieres, and be strengthe of hem:  but they knowe not of what nacioun, ne of what lawe thei schulle ben offe, that schulle overcomen hem.  And therfore thei suffren, that folk of alle lawes may peysibely duellen amonges hem.

Also whan thei wille make hire ydoles, or an ymage of ony of hire frendes, for to have remembrance of hym, thei maken alle weys the ymage alle naked, with outen any maner of clothinge.  For thei seyn, that in gode love scholde be no coverynge, that man scholde not love for the faire clothinge, ne for the riche aray, but only for the body, suche as God hathe made it, and for the gode vertues that the body is endowed with of nature; but only for fair clothinge, that is not of kyndely nature.

And zee schulle undirstonde, that it is gret drede for to pursue the Tartarines, zif thei fleen in bataylle.  For in fleynge, thei schooten behynden hem, and sleen bothe men and hors.  And whan thei wil fighte, thei wille schokken hem to gidre in a plomp; that zif there be 20000 men, men schalle not wenen, that there be scant 10000.  And thei cone wel wynnen lond of straungeres, but thei cone not kepen it.  For thei han grettre lust to lye in tentes with outen, than for to lye in castelle or in townes.  And thei preysen no thing the wytt of other naciouns.  And amonges hem, oyle of olyve is fulle dere:  for thei holden it for fulle noble medicyne.  And alle the Tartarienes han smale eyen and litille of berd, and not thikke hered, but schiere.  And thei ben false and traytoures:  and thei lasten noghte that thei behoten.  Thei ben fulle harde folk, and moche peyne and wo mow suffren and disese, more than ony other folk:  for thei ben taughte therto in hire owne contree, of Zouthe:  and therfore thei spenden, as who seythe, right nought.

And whan ony man schalle dye, men setter a spere besyde him:  and whan he drawethe towardes the dethe, every man fleethe out of the hous, tille he be ded; and aftre that, thei buryen him in the feldes.

CAPVT. 39.

De sepultura Imperatoris Grand Can, et creatione successoris.

Imperator Grand Can postquam eius cognita fuerit defunctio defertur mox a paucis viris in parco palatij, ad praeuisum locum vbi debeat sepeliri.  Et nudato prius toto illo loco a graminibus cum cespite figitur ibi tentorium, in quo velut in solio regali de ligno corpus defuncti residens collocatur, paraturque mensa plena coram eo cibarijs praeciosis, et potu de lacte iumentorum.  Instabulatur ibi et equa cum suo pullo, sed et ipse albus, nobiliter phaleratus, et onustatus certo pondere auri et argenti.  Et est totum Tentorij pauimentum de mundo stramine stratum.